https://www.myaihardware.com Independent AI hardware benchmarks, comparisons, deep dives, and buying guides for local LLM builders. en-us Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:53:46 GMT https://www.myaihardware.com/news#amd-advancing-ai-2026-preview news-amd-advancing-ai-2026-preview AMD holds Advancing AI 2026 on July 22-23 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, with Dr. Lisa Su's keynote on July 23. Deep dives on Instinct MI450 accelerators and the Helios rack system are expected, but nothing is confirmed until the event. Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT news https://www.myaihardware.com/news#google-gemini-3-5-pro-delay news-google-gemini-3-5-pro-delay Bloomberg reported on July 16, 2026 that Google is delaying Gemini 3.5 Pro months past its June target, and Google confirmed it is still testing the model alongside an upgraded stopgap Flash release. The widely shared July 17 launch date was never official. Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT news https://www.myaihardware.com/news#tsmc-q2-2026-record-earnings news-tsmc-q2-2026-record-earnings TSMC announced record second-quarter 2026 results on July 16: revenue of NT$1,270.38 billion (US$40.20 billion), up 36.0 percent year over year in NT dollars, with net income up 77.4 percent. The company also raised 2026 capital spending to $60-64 billion. Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT news https://www.myaihardware.com/news#kimi-k3-inkling-open-weights-week news-kimi-k3-inkling-open-weights-week Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter MoE that debuted at number one on LMArena's Frontend Code leaderboard, on July 16, 2026, a day after Thinking Machines released Inkling, a 975B open-weights model under Apache 2.0. Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT news https://www.myaihardware.com/news#local-runtime-roundup-ollama-032-gemma4-lm-studio-bionic news-local-runtime-roundup-ollama-032-gemma4-lm-studio-bionic Three local-stack updates in one week: Ollama 0.32.0 turns the CLI into an interactive agent by default, Google refreshed all Gemma 4 weights in place with tool-calling fixes, and LM Studio launched the Bionic agent app alongside mlx-engine 1.8.5. Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT news https://www.myaihardware.com/news#nvidia-jetson-thor-t3000-t2000-jetpack-721 news-nvidia-jetson-thor-t3000-t2000-jetpack-721 NVIDIA announced two mainstream Jetson Thor modules in Tokyo on July 15, 2026. The T3000 and T2000 ship in Q1 2027, with T3000 emulation arriving on the AGX Thor devkit later in July via JetPack 7.2.1. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT news https://www.myaihardware.com/news#nvidia-cosmos-3-edge-4b-on-device news-nvidia-cosmos-3-edge-4b-on-device Announced with the Jetson Thor expansion on July 15, 2026, Cosmos 3 Edge is a 4-billion-parameter world foundation model built for on-device inference on Thor-class hardware, extending the open Cosmos 3 family below the 32B Super and 8B Nano tiers. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT news https://www.myaihardware.com/news#amd-rocm-7-14-production-therock news-amd-rocm-7-14-production-therock AMD promoted ROCm 7.14 to production status on July 15, 2026, ending the 7.9-7.13 preview train without a ROCm 8.0. The release moves to the modular TheRock build system and adds Ryzen AI 400 series support plus inference-ready vLLM images. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT news https://www.myaihardware.com/news#samsung-gaia-npu-pc-hp-lenovo news-samsung-gaia-npu-pc-hp-lenovo Korean media reports say Samsung System LSI is developing Gaia, a discrete 4nm companion NPU for AI PCs, with HP validating the part in the US and Lenovo in China. Samsung has not confirmed the chip, and no performance figures exist. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT news https://www.myaihardware.com/news#jedec-sphbm4-jesd330-4 news-jedec-sphbm4-jesd330-4 JEDEC published JESD330-4, the Standard Package High Bandwidth Memory (SPHBM4) standard, on July 13, 2026. It narrows the interface to 512 data signals so HBM can mount on organic substrates, removing one of the biggest cost lines in AI accelerators. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT news https://www.myaihardware.com/news#amd-ryzen-ai-halo-launch news-amd-ryzen-ai-halo-launch AMD's first self-branded Strix Halo mini PC went on sale July 10, 2026 at $3,999 as a Micro Center US exclusive. It pairs the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with 128GB of unified LPDDR5X memory and targets NVIDIA's DGX Spark. Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT news https://www.myaihardware.com/news#intel-starfire-space-panther-lake news-intel-starfire-space-panther-lake Intel published details of Starfire around July 9, 2026: a ruggedized Panther Lake derivative from Intel Government Technologies for spacecraft and extreme-environment edge compute, rated for -55C to 125C operation with a guaranteed lifetime of more than 10 years. Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT news https://www.myaihardware.com/news#sambanova-1b-series-f-jpmorgan-2026 news-sambanova-1b-series-f-jpmorgan-2026 SambaNova closed the first $1 billion of a Series F led by General Atlantic on July 8, 2026 at an $11 billion valuation, and JPMorganChase selected the company as an on-premises AI inference partner deploying SN40L and SN50 systems. Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT news https://www.myaihardware.com/news#apple-mlx-0-32-cuda-backend-speedups news-apple-mlx-0-32-cuda-backend-speedups MLX 0.32.0, released July 7, 2026, brings LLM inference speedups to the CUDA backend, caches JIT-compiled CUDA kernels, widens quantized matmul coverage including NVFP4, and adds cuda13 install extras requiring NVIDIA driver 580 or newer. Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT news https://www.myaihardware.com/news#nvidia-isaac-gr00t-17-lerobot news-nvidia-isaac-gr00t-17-lerobot NVIDIA and Hugging Face added the open Isaac GR00T 1.7 vision-language-action models and the Isaac Teleop data-collection framework to LeRobot, announced July 6, 2026, replacing the now-deprecated GR00T N1.5. Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT news https://www.myaihardware.com/news#lm-studio-0-4-19-cuda-13-3-1-stack-updates news-lm-studio-0-4-19-cuda-13-3-1-stack-updates LM Studio 0.4.19 (July 7, 2026) makes the Engine Protocol default-on in the stable channel and moves several llama.cpp settings, while NVIDIA's CUDA Toolkit 13.3 Update 1 (June 29, 2026) becomes the current toolkit on the r610 driver branch. Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT news https://www.myaihardware.com/news#apple-base-m6-fall-2026-m7-andros-pulled-forward news-apple-base-m6-fall-2026-m7-andros-pulled-forward Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Apple will ship only a base M6 chip this fall with no Pro or Max variants, while accelerating the AI-focused M7 family codenamed Andros. Apple has not confirmed the plans. Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT news https://www.myaihardware.com/news#anthropic-samsung-custom-ai-chip-talks news-anthropic-samsung-custom-ai-chip-talks The Information reported on July 2, 2026, with wide pickup on July 3, that Anthropic is discussing a custom AI accelerator with Samsung, reportedly considering Samsung Foundry's 2nm SF2P process with an inference focus. The talks are early and may not lead to a chip. Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT news https://www.myaihardware.com/news#trendforce-3q26-memory-price-forecast news-trendforce-3q26-memory-price-forecast TrendForce's July 3, 2026 forecast puts Q3 DRAM contract prices up 13 to 18 percent quarter over quarter and NAND up 10 to 15 percent, a slowdown from roughly 60 percent Q2 jumps driven by buyers hitting an affordability ceiling. Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT news https://www.myaihardware.com/news#amd-gpu-gddr-kit-price-hike-july-2026 news-amd-gpu-gddr-kit-price-hike-july-2026 TrendForce reported on July 3, 2026 that AMD notified board partners of a roughly 10 percent increase on GPU-plus-GDDR bundle kits effective July, its second hike in about six months. AMD has not publicly confirmed it. Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT news https://www.myaihardware.com/news#qualcomm-snapdragon-summit-2026-dates news-qualcomm-snapdragon-summit-2026-dates Qualcomm confirmed on June 30, 2026 that Snapdragon Summit 2026 runs September 22 to 24 in Maui. A 2nm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 is the rumored headliner, but only the dates and venue are official. Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT news https://www.myaihardware.com/news#tenstorrent-keller-denies-qualcomm-acquisition news-tenstorrent-keller-denies-qualcomm-acquisition Speaking in Tokyo on June 30, 2026, Tenstorrent CEO Jim Keller said the company has not been in acquisition talks with Qualcomm, contradicting a June 15 report of an $8 to $10 billion deal. Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT news https://www.myaihardware.com/news#ollama-0-31-gemma-4-mtp-apple-silicon news-ollama-0-31-gemma-4-mtp-apple-silicon Ollama 0.31, announced June 29, 2026, enables multi-token prediction for Gemma 4 on the MLX engine, lifting Gemma 4 12B from 50.2 to 95.0 tokens per second on an M5 Max. The v0.31.2 follow-up adds flash attention for Pascal-era NVIDIA GPUs. Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT news https://www.myaihardware.com/news#apple-mac-ipad-price-increases-june-2026 news-apple-mac-ipad-price-increases-june-2026 On June 25, 2026, Apple raised prices across the Mac and iPad lineups by as much as 18 percent, citing surging memory costs. The MacBook Air now starts at $1,299, the MacBook Pro at $1,999, and the Mac mini M4 at $799. Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT news https://www.myaihardware.com/compare-article/rtx-5090-vs-rtx-4090-ai comparison-rtx-5090-vs-rtx-4090-ai NVIDIA RTX 5090 vs NVIDIA RTX 4090 for AI Inference & Local LLMs, specs, benchmarks, real-world scenarios, price-per-performance, and our 2026 verdict. Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT comparison https://www.myaihardware.com/compare-article/rtx-4090-vs-rtx-3090-llm comparison-rtx-4090-vs-rtx-3090-llm NVIDIA RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA RTX 3090 for Local LLM Inference, specs, benchmarks, real-world scenarios, price-per-performance, and our 2026 verdict. Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT comparison https://www.myaihardware.com/compare-article/m4-max-vs-rtx-4090-local-llm comparison-m4-max-vs-rtx-4090-local-llm Apple M4 Max vs NVIDIA RTX 4090 for Local LLM Inference, specs, benchmarks, real-world scenarios, price-per-performance, and our 2026 verdict. Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT comparison https://www.myaihardware.com/compare-article/mac-studio-m3-ultra-vs-dual-rtx-4090 comparison-mac-studio-m3-ultra-vs-dual-rtx-4090 Mac Studio M3 Ultra vs Dual RTX 4090 Workstation for Local 70B+ Model Inference, specs, benchmarks, real-world scenarios, price-per-performance, and our 2026 verdict. Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT comparison https://www.myaihardware.com/compare-article/amd-mi300x-vs-nvidia-h100 comparison-amd-mi300x-vs-nvidia-h100 AMD Instinct MI300X vs NVIDIA H100 SXM5 for Datacenter AI Training & Inference, specs, benchmarks, real-world scenarios, price-per-performance, and our 2026 verdict. Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT comparison https://www.myaihardware.com/compare-article/rtx-5080-vs-rtx-4090-ai comparison-rtx-5080-vs-rtx-4090-ai NVIDIA RTX 5080 vs NVIDIA RTX 4090 for AI Inference & Mid-Tier LLMs, specs, benchmarks, real-world scenarios, price-per-performance, and our 2026 verdict. Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT comparison https://www.myaihardware.com/compare-article/rtx-4060-ti-16gb-vs-rtx-3060-12gb-budget-llm comparison-rtx-4060-ti-16gb-vs-rtx-3060-12gb-budget-llm RTX 4060 Ti 16GB vs RTX 3060 12GB for Budget Local LLM Builds, specs, benchmarks, real-world scenarios, price-per-performance, and our 2026 verdict. Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT comparison https://www.myaihardware.com/compare-article/rx-7900-xtx-vs-rtx-4080-super-ollama comparison-rx-7900-xtx-vs-rtx-4080-super-ollama AMD RX 7900 XTX vs NVIDIA RTX 4080 Super for Ollama Local Inference, specs, benchmarks, real-world scenarios, price-per-performance, and our 2026 verdict. Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT comparison https://www.myaihardware.com/compare-article/jetson-orin-nano-super-vs-raspberry-pi-5-hailo comparison-jetson-orin-nano-super-vs-raspberry-pi-5-hailo NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super vs Raspberry Pi 5 + Hailo-8L for Edge AI Inference, specs, benchmarks, real-world scenarios, price-per-performance, and our 2026 verdict. Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT comparison https://www.myaihardware.com/compare-article/strix-halo-vs-apple-m4-pro-local-ai comparison-strix-halo-vs-apple-m4-pro-local-ai AMD Ryzen AI Max+ (Strix Halo) vs Apple M4 Pro for Local AI on Mobile Workstations, specs, benchmarks, real-world scenarios, price-per-performance, and our 2026 verdict. Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT comparison https://www.myaihardware.com/compare-article/dgx-spark-vs-mac-studio-m3-ultra comparison-dgx-spark-vs-mac-studio-m3-ultra NVIDIA DGX Spark (Project DIGITS) vs Mac Studio M3 Ultra for Desktop AI Inference Workstation, specs, benchmarks, real-world scenarios, price-per-performance, and our 2026 verdict. Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT comparison https://www.myaihardware.com/compare-article/llama-cpp-vs-vllm-vs-tgi-vs-mlc-inference-engines comparison-llama-cpp-vs-vllm-vs-tgi-vs-mlc-inference-engines llama.cpp vs vLLM for Local LLM Inference Engine, specs, benchmarks, real-world scenarios, price-per-performance, and our 2026 verdict. Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT comparison https://www.myaihardware.com/compare-article/ollama-vs-lm-studio-vs-jan-vs-gpt4all comparison-ollama-vs-lm-studio-vs-jan-vs-gpt4all Ollama vs LM Studio for Desktop Local LLM Runner, specs, benchmarks, real-world scenarios, price-per-performance, and our 2026 verdict. Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT comparison https://www.myaihardware.com/compare-article/2x-rtx-3090-vs-1x-rtx-4090-vs-1x-rtx-5090 comparison-2x-rtx-3090-vs-1x-rtx-4090-vs-1x-rtx-5090 2x RTX 3090 (NVLink) vs 1x RTX 5090 for Local 70B Model Inference Build, specs, benchmarks, real-world scenarios, price-per-performance, and our 2026 verdict. Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT comparison https://www.myaihardware.com/compare-article/rtx-5090-32gb-vs-rtx-6000-ada-48gb-pro-card comparison-rtx-5090-32gb-vs-rtx-6000-ada-48gb-pro-card NVIDIA RTX 5090 32GB vs NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 48GB for Pro AI Workstation, specs, benchmarks, real-world scenarios, price-per-performance, and our 2026 verdict. Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT comparison https://www.myaihardware.com/compare-article/snapdragon-x-elite-vs-intel-core-ultra-9-288v-copilot-plus comparison-snapdragon-x-elite-vs-intel-core-ultra-9-288v-copilot-plus Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite vs Intel Core Ultra 9 288V (Lunar Lake) for Copilot+ PC Local AI, specs, benchmarks, real-world scenarios, price-per-performance, and our 2026 verdict. Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT comparison https://www.myaihardware.com/compare-article/comfyui-vs-automatic1111-vs-forge-sdxl-flux comparison-comfyui-vs-automatic1111-vs-forge-sdxl-flux ComfyUI vs AUTOMATIC1111 for Stable Diffusion / SDXL / Flux UI, specs, benchmarks, real-world scenarios, price-per-performance, and our 2026 verdict. Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT comparison https://www.myaihardware.com/compare-article/local-llama-3-70b-vs-gpt-4o-mini-api comparison-local-llama-3-70b-vs-gpt-4o-mini-api Local Llama 3 70B (self-hosted) vs GPT-4o mini API (OpenAI) for Production LLM Deployment, specs, benchmarks, real-world scenarios, price-per-performance, and our 2026 verdict. Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT comparison https://www.myaihardware.com/compare-article/deepseek-r1-671b-local-vs-deepseek-api comparison-deepseek-r1-671b-local-vs-deepseek-api DeepSeek R1 671B (local 8x H200) vs DeepSeek API for DeepSeek R1 Frontier Reasoning, specs, benchmarks, real-world scenarios, price-per-performance, and our 2026 verdict. Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT comparison https://www.myaihardware.com/compare-article/threadripper-7980x-vs-epyc-9354p-cpu-inference comparison-threadripper-7980x-vs-epyc-9354p-cpu-inference AMD Threadripper PRO 7980X vs AMD EPYC 9354P for CPU-Only LLM Inference, specs, benchmarks, real-world scenarios, price-per-performance, and our 2026 verdict. Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT comparison https://www.myaihardware.com/deep-dive/cuda-vs-rocm-vs-sycl-vs-metal-vs-vulkan-2026 deep-dive-cuda-vs-rocm-vs-sycl-vs-metal-vs-vulkan-2026 A no-BS comparison for AI builders running LLMs on real hardware, with real numbers, real libraries, and real tradeoffs. Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT deep-dive https://www.myaihardware.com/deep-dive/flashattention-1-2-3-explained deep-dive-flashattention-1-2-3-explained How tiling, kernel fusion, and online softmax let you run 2x longer contexts on the same GPU hardware. Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT deep-dive https://www.myaihardware.com/deep-dive/rag-architecture-deep-dive-chunking-embedding-hybrid-retrieval deep-dive-rag-architecture-deep-dive-chunking-embedding-hybrid-retrieval A technical deep-dive into building production-grade retrieval-augmented generation pipelines for local LLMs. Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT deep-dive https://www.myaihardware.com/deep-dive/tensor-parallelism-vs-pipeline-parallelism-vs-sequence-parallelism deep-dive-tensor-parallelism-vs-pipeline-parallelism-vs-sequence-parallelism A technical comparison of three model-parallel strategies for scaling LLMs across GPUs, with real-world benchmarks and deployment trade-offs. Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT deep-dive https://www.myaihardware.com/deep-dive/economics-of-running-70b-405b-671b-on-prem deep-dive-economics-of-running-70b-405b-671b-on-prem Real hardware costs, token throughput, and break-even analysis for running frontier LLMs locally vs. API Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT deep-dive https://www.myaihardware.com/deep-dive/mac-metal-mlx-vs-linux-cuda-perf-per-watt deep-dive-mac-metal-mlx-vs-linux-cuda-perf-per-watt How Apple Silicon's unified memory and MLX stack stack up against NVIDIA H100/RTX 5090 on tokens per joule for local LLM inference. Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT deep-dive